i hear you (metaphorically speakin', that is.....); I feel dichotomous in loving slang, but hating what appears to be mis-use (i know, the language grows not necessarily along the path that the purist grammar police would have it grow, but instead where the mindless public usage meanders), and bastardization of words...... especially offensive is the use by otherwise intelligent commentators (to my everlasting shame, i'm a news junkie, so i watch a lot of talking head "news" shows) of the word hypothetical as a noun, instead of the perfectly good adjective that it is.